Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Jamie Bielinsi's "Swedish Meatballs"

Swedish Meatballs by Jamie Bielinski

1 10oz Jar Grape Jelly
1 10oz Bottle La Choy Sweet & Sour Sauce
1 10oz Bottle Heinz Chilli Sauce
1 Tbsp. Worcestershire Sauce
1 Tbsp. Lemon Juice

Place meatballs in slow cooker with mixture and heat until warm.
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The recipe doesn't state the source of meatballs.

Tuesday, November 09, 2010

9 November 2010

Breakfast: Jimmy Dean Breakfast Bowls Bacon (Eggs, Potatoes, Bacon & Cheddar Cheese) and coffee

Snack: two thick slices of sour dough bread, with low-fat margarine, toasted in the office toaster/oven

8 November 2010

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee

Lunch: chopped up left over roast beef, potatoes, carrots and gravy (and water)

Dinner: a TV dinner of chicken fried chicken, mashed potatoes, carrots and gravy (and water)

Monday, November 08, 2010

7 November 2010

Breakfast: sausage and pancakes, a peanut butter and grape jelly on toast and coffee (we had this at a hotel in McPherson Kansas)

Lunch: 6" Subway meatball sub, chips and a "Diet Pepsi"

Dinner: meat pizza and some orange sherbert with choclate sauce for desert (and water...)

Tuesday, November 02, 2010

1 November 2010

Breakfast: a hodgepodge of left overs: part of a Ruben, part of a cheese sandwich (Tillamook Sharp Cheddar and Gudda), some over oven baked chicken and coffee

Lunch: baked pork chops and boiled rice plus a can of Diet Pepsi

Dinner: a Healthy Choice chicken meal and water, then, a gin-n-tonic and sunflower seeds for desert

Monday, November 01, 2010

31 October 2010

 Breakfast: wheaties and coffee

Lunch: we went to Montana Mike's for:
  • salad with Thousand Island Dressing
  • ribeye steak done medium (I took the remnants home and will have them for breakfast later this week)
  • baked potatoe
  • roll with honey butter
  • 2 glasses of "Diet Pepsi"
We have very good service from a young waitress who was very cute...

Dinner: a Healthy Choice meatloaf/mashed potatoe/corn/apple crisp dinner and a couple of pieces of dark chocolate my wife took from the goodies bowl for trick and treaters...

Sunday, October 31, 2010

30 October 2010

Breakfast: Jimmy Dean Breakfast Bowls Sausage (Eggs, Potatoes, Sausage & Cheddar Cheese) and coffee

Snack: a small piece of the pork chop I baked for lunch (but will have tomorrow) and a small amount of the rice...

Lunch: One and a half Ruben, some potatoe salad and water

Dinner: boneless chicken I fried in my cast iron fry pan and some homemade bread (made from a can of bread dough) and a bottle of beer (I seem to be losing my taste for beer). As desert and after Kathie got back from a birthday party, a gin-n-tonic.

Saturday, October 30, 2010

30 October 2010

Breakfast: Jimmy Dean Breakfast Bowls Sausage (Eggs, Potatoes, Sausage & Cheddar Cheese) and coffee

Snack: a small piece of the pork chop I baked for lunch (but will have tomorrow) and a small amount of the rice...


29 October 2010

Breakfast: oatmeal and donuts and coffee

Lunch: Progresso Traditional Chicken & Wild Rice with a bag of Cheeze-Its added and a Pepsi One.

Dinner: a bowl of Campbell tomatoe soup with chunks of sausage, a peanut butter and grape jelly sandwich and a small amount of orange sherbet

My post dinner blood sugar was too damn high, especially considering how little I had for dinner and the low levels of carbs...

Friday, October 29, 2010

29 October 2010

Breakfast: oatmeal and donuts and coffee

Lunch: Progresso Traditional Chicken & Wild Rice with a bag of Cheeze-Its added and a Pepsi One.

Monday, October 25, 2010

25 October 2010

Breakfast: piece of sausage, milk toast and coffee

Snack: a small bowl of orange sherbet and chocolate topping (I felt completely drained after working out...)

Lunch: at Pizza Hut, salad, two slices of meat pizza, slice of desert pizza, some awful tasting chocolate pudding
I have to admit that while the selection wasn't too great, the service was fine.

Snack: a small bowl of orange sherbet and chocolate topping

Dinner: instant left overs made from a cheap steak, two chopped up and boiled potatoes, and broccoli
It was good but I felt the urge for something sweet after dinner and had to resist the urge to buy Oreos...

I broke down and bought some little cookies...

Sunday, October 24, 2010

24 October 2010

Breakfast: Kathie's Big Breakfast of:
  • well cooked bacon,
  • scrambled eggs,
  • Serri Lee coffee cake
  • coffee
Lunch: We went with a nice Sunday lunch of:
  • baked whole chicken
  • stuffing
  • broccoli
  • small baked potatoe (which I had) and
  • iced water
Snack: a cup of coffee and a square of dark chocolate (This was a real big mistake; I had indigestion for hours afterward.)

Dinner: Lean Cuisine Meatloaf with Mashed Potatoes (savory meatloaf with gravy and creamy red-skin mashed potatoes) and iced water with a couple of little Oreo cookies for desert (and the subsequent heart burn...)

Saturday, October 23, 2010

22 October 2010

Breakfast: wheaties and coffee

Lunch: the rest of the left over sheghetti and iced water

Dinner: the usual mix with rice at King's Buffet and ice creamme for desert

Snack: two gin-n-tonic

Friday, October 22, 2010

21 October 2010 (updated)

Breakfast: cheerios with two bananas and coffee

Snack: left over spaghetti from the other night

Lunch: chicken and fish plus fries and a medium "Diet Pepsi" at Long John Silvers.

Dinner: a Healthy Choice Meat Loaf diinner and water

Snack: a double gin-n-tonic


Thursday, October 21, 2010

21 October 2010

Breakfast: cheerios with two bananas and coffee

Snack: left over spaghetti from the other night

20 October 2010

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee

Lunch: at Casey's Cowtown:
  • bar-b-qued ribs
  • mashed potatoes with brown gravy
  • roll with butter
  • water
Dinner: at Montana Mike's
  • salad with Thousand Island Dressing
  • big steak
  • baked potatoe with butter and sour creamme
  • roll with cinnamon butter
  • ice water

Sunday, October 17, 2010

17 October 2010

Breakfast: piece of sausage and part of a bowl of wheaties; it wasn't so good and I think the milk has gone bad

Lunch: two brats boiled in cheap beer with chunked up green pepper, onion, garlic and the aforementioned brats (with a bottle of Diet Pepsi...)

Snack: some "homemade" bread (made from a can of "French Bread") and cold water

Dinner: a Healthy Choice Beef Pot Roast (Roasted Beef with Cabernet Gravy, Carrots, Red Potatoes & Apple Cranberry Multigrain Crisp) and iced water and for desert (a couple of hours after dinner): 6 little Oreos...I was very hungry. Unfortunately, about an hour after eating them, I felt ill...

Saturday, October 16, 2010

16 October 2010

Good news: I had an A1C test done at the Health Faire today and my A1C had dropped from 8.5 to 8.3. So, I'm happy...

Breakfast: at Dodge House,
  • scrambled eggs from a pan,
  • a slice of bacon,
  • several link sausage,
  • SOS (with sliced link sausage) on hash browns
  • a biscuit with grape jelly and
  • coffee and ice water
The parking lot of the first place we went to was crammed and we simply could not find a parking place. We went to the Dodge House...

Lunch: at Applebys,  where I had the fahetias with steak and chicken, grilled onions, chopped tomatoes, white cheddar cheese, finely sliced lettuce and two glasses of "Diet Pepsi".

Dinner:
a Healthy Choice "Classic Meat Loaf (Meat Loaf with Rich Brown Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Sweet Corn Blend & Apple Cranberry Multigrain Crisp) and iced water

Snack: bag of popcorn and 2 Reese's Cups...

Friday, October 15, 2010

15 October 2010

Breakfast: grits with some pseudo-butter (but not enough) and two "thick" slices of baloney (sliced up) and coffee

Lunch: Went to Taco Bell and had a large (2x) steak Chalumpa {sic} and hard taco with a medium "Diet Coke" (just a little touch of Dr. Pooper Pepper in it...).  I have to admit, this was the best I've eaten at Taco Bell in well over a decade. It really was good! (Of course, "hunger is the best appetizer".)

Snack: didn't have one.  I sat down on the couch and started reading "Mission of Honor" by David Weber. My dog sat down next to my left leg and my older cat used my right leg as a pillow. I simply didn't want to disturb either one and didn't want to put the book down. Without giving a spoiler, I was reading the horrifying "Oyster Bay" (Manticore) section...

I did make the mistake of drinking a strong cup of coffee before going to work (about 2:30 pm while I was walking my dog) and then maybe ¼ to a ½ cup of coffee after I got to work. My stomach was upset for at least 3 hours after this. Tomorrow, no caffeine after noon!

Dinner: a fine mixture of left overs, fresh and canned
  • the rest of the baked and then boiled steak from yesterday
  • a can of sliced potatoes (which gave me a day's worth of salt!)
  • a bunch of over boiled broccoli florets
  • iced water

Thursday, October 14, 2010

14 October 2010

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee

Lunch: at Casey's, a hamburger, fries and water

Snack: some more orange sherbet with chocolate topping

Dinner: a couple of small steaks, baked and then boiled, rice and boiled carrots

Snack: Oreo cookies (6), I was very hungry...

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

14 October 2010

Breakfast: wheaties and coffee

Lunch: At Casey's Cowtown, the special: Spaghetti with meatballs and a red sauce (and iced water)

Snack: some sherbet with chocolate topping and a cup of coffee

Dinner: a hamburger patty, small baked potatoe and boiled carrots (and iced water)

Snack: a bag of popcorn and two Reese's'  cup

I was delighted that Mike Casey (owner of "Casey's Cowtown") has finally decided to serve spaghetti with meatballs and a red sauce; I have been bugging him for years on the subject and I think he came through well. I hope he has this available tomorrow and if so, I will order it.

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

12 October 2010

Breakfast: wheaties and coffee

Lunch: Healthy Choice Beef Pot Roast (Roasted Beef with Cabernet Gravy, Carrots, Red Potatoes & Apple Cranberry Multigrain Crisp) and iced water

Snack: Cheeze-It Baked Snack Crackers and iced water

Snack: some orange sherbet 

Dinner: We  went to the Boot Hill Casino Restaurant for Tuscan Tuesday:
  • salad
  • some great pork and beef lasagna
  • a strange white sauced substance
  • green dough made with spinage
I asked the waiter what "pasta bar" meant. It turned out the two guys at a table were running a pasta bar and not a desert bar. I went back. The cook sauteed garlic, chopped tomoatoes, chunks of chicken in olive oil and added the red sauce and spaghetti noodles. (All of this is what I asked for.)


Monday, October 11, 2010

11 October 2010

_____Breakfast: at McDonalds, the "Big Breakfast" of
  • scrambled eggs
  • potatoe thingies
  • biscuit with grape jelly
  • coffee
________Lunch: From Subway, a foot long on whole wheat with ham, turkey, lettuce and a glass of "Diet Coke"
_______Dinner: rice with Chinese chicken and two scoops of orange sherbet with chocolate topping

10 October 2010

_____Breakfast: at Casey\'s Cowtown:
  • a small pork chop
  • hash browns
  • 2 eggs over medium
  • 2 slices whole wheat toast with grape jelly

________Lunch: two hamburgers and chicken noodle soup plus a bottle of Diet Pepsi
_______Dinner: balooney sandwich and some other stuff...

Sunday, October 10, 2010

9 October 2010

_____Breakfast: Kathie's Big Breakfast of
  • bacon
  • scrambled eggs
  • Sari Lee coffee cake
  • coffee
Snack A Starbuck's Mocha and part of a chocolate chip cookie:
________Lunch:  at the Airport Restaurant in Garden City
  • excellent rolls and butter
  • spaghetti with meat sauce with meat balls and sausage
  • Diet Coke
_______Dinner: a can of Tomatoe soup and a peanut butter and grape jelly sandwich

               Snack: I attended the "Dora Hand" play in Dodge City Kansas. After the play, I had a wine punch and a very small choclate chip brownie (the smallest I could find...)

I enjoyed the play, which was very well done. I would put a link to it if I could find one in the Dodge City Globe.

          Dinner #2: a baloney sandwich on crusty "Italian" bread
 
Pre-Bed Snack: bowl of orange sherbet with chocolate topping

Friday, October 08, 2010

8 October 2010

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee

Lunch: French dip, fries and "Diet Coke"

Snack: small amount of orange sherbet with chocolate topping

Dinner: small piece 8% fat hamburger, baked potatoe, 2 bananas broccoli and iced water

Thursday, October 07, 2010

7 October 2010

Breakfast: cheerios, a banana and coffee

Lunch: from Sonic, a hamburger, fries and medium "Diet Coke"

Dinner:  Healthy Choice Classic Meat Loaf (Meat Loaf with Rich Brown Gravy, Mashed Potatoes , Sweet Corn Blend & Apple Cranberry Multigrain Crisp) and iced water

Wednesday, October 06, 2010

6 October 2010

Breakfast: left over steak and the rest of the leftover rice pilaf and coffee

Lunch: roast beef, mashed potatoes and brown gravy and a fine roll at Casey's Cowtown (and ice water)

Snack: ice creamme with chocolate sauce

Dinner: Healthy Choice Chicken Romano Fresca (chicken tenderloins with whole grain pasta, broccoli, red peppers in romano cheese & butter glaze) and cold water.  Desert: some  more ice creamme and choclate chip cookies (2)

Tuesday, October 05, 2010

5 October 2010

Breakfast: small piece of steak and some left over rice pilaf and coffee

Lunch: We went to a fairly new place, "Bella Italia Ristorante". This is our second visit. I had lasagna, two slices of white bread and 2 glasses of "Diet Coke". The lasagna was quite good, the bread needs improvement and the service fine.

They seriously need to decorate the place; they need some pictures and there are two electrical outlets that should be removed, with all traces of their existence destroyed (this "Ristorante" used to be a photo shop.)

Given the number of hamburger joints, "Mexican" restaurants, and quick food places, "Bella Italia Ristorante" is a sorely needed addition to the local restaurants selection.

All things considered, I hope they stay in business.

Snack: a piece of chocolate cake and some vanilla ice creamme. (Given how crappy I felt about 10 minutes after eating this, I kind of wish I had not...)

Pre-dinner Snack: two ripe bananas

Dinner: left over beef stew and cold water


Monday, October 04, 2010

4 October 2010

Breakfast: small piece of pork chop, peanut butter and grape jelly on sour dough bread and coffee

Lunch: Pizza Hut for
  • a salad
  • two slices of meat pizza
  • slice of apple desert pizza
  • small cup of choclate pudding
  • two glasses of "Diet Pepsi"
The service was quite good! I hereby repent all the obnoxious remarks I made in the past about Pizza Hut; they seem to have gotten the hang of customer service. (I just hope they can maintain it...)

Snack: small slice of low sugar apple pie when I got to work (it was sitting out on a table being a perfect target for flies and germs...)

Dinner: home made stew with
  • stewed (cheap) beef steak
  • stewed pork chops
  • potatoe
  • carrots
  • various seasonings...
and cold water with the stew.

3 October 2010

Breakfast: Kathie's big breakfast of
  • well cooked bacon stripes
  • scrambled eggs
  • Serri Lee coffee cake
  • coffee
Lunch: a ham sandwich, tomatoe soup with oyster crackers and a bottle of Diet Pepsi (the first I've brought home in a long time!)

Dinner: boiled pork chop and boiled potatoe and cold water

2 October 2010

Breakfast: cheerios and coffee

Lunch: at the Boot Hill Casino, I had
  • salad and
  • a small part of a cup of soup (there were too many mushrooms...)
  • pot roast with
  • mashed potatoes and brown gravy plus
  • a medley of veggies (I ate the broccoli florets and yellow squash) and we
  • split a piece of chocolate/caramel cake
I had a glass of Diet Pepsi after lunch

Dinner: pizza and a MGD

Post dinner "snack": a double gin-n-tonic...

Thursday, September 30, 2010

29 September 2010 (updated)

  Breakfast: Jimmy Dean Breakfast Bowls Sausage & Gravy (Potatoes, Eggs,Country Gravy, Sausage & Cheddar Cheese) and coffee

Snack: popcorn and coffee

Lunch: from Casey's Cowtown, a big hamburger, french fries and iced water

Snack: a small amount of orange sherbert with choclate topping

Dinner: a Healthy Choice meal of roast beef, potatoes, carrots and apple crisp desert (with cold water to drink)

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

29 September 2010

 Breakfast: Jimmy Dean Breakfast Bowls Sausage & Gravy (Potatoes, Eggs,Country Gravy, Sausage & Cheddar Cheese) and coffee

Snack: popcorn and coffee

28 September 2010

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee

Snack: 2 chocolate chip cookies

Lunch #1: "fresh baked" bread

Lunch #2: (after blood drive) a ham sandwich, chips, little Oreo cookies and coffee

Dinner: a Healthy Choice meal of "meatloaf", mashed potatoes, corn and water and for desert, some orange sherbet with chocolate topping

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

27 September 2010

Breakfast: from Burger King, SOS on biscuits, potatoe thingies and coffee

Lunch: a chicken sandwich from Sonic, onion rings, medium Diet Coke

Dinner: left over pizza from last night and water

Sunday, September 26, 2010

26 September 2010

_____Breakfast:  at the Kansas City Mo airport,
  • scrambled egg
  • bacon
  • spiced potatoe chunks
  • 2 slices toast with grape jelly
  • and coffee
There was something about the meal that disagreed with me and I did good to keep the breakfast down...
________Lunch: Also at the Kansas City airport:
  • two little pieces of chicken breast
  • mashed potatoes with some kind of spice
  • veggies (carrots and squash)
  • two glasses of Diet Coke
_______Dinner: at home, pizza from Pizza Butt Hutt and a beer
Pre-Bed Snack: a double gin-n-tonic

25 September 2010




_____Breakfast: at the Minneapolis Hilton
  • bacon, sausage,onion omelet
  • hash browns
  • bacon
I compare my hand size with the "sandwich" here and the "sandwich" is about the width of my palm!
________Lunch: at the Lions Forum, IT WAS SMALL!
  • about a 1/3 of a sliced meat and tomatoe sandwich
  • small amount of potatoe salad on a single leaf of lettuce
  • a dollop of whipped creamme on a chocolate chip cookie
  • coffee
We went to the Hilton Bar and had several bowls of popcorn and three draft beers - MDG. It was excellent and makes me sad to think that while this bar had ten (10!) different good beers on tap, Dodge City bars have maybe four (4!) "light" or "lite" or "Ultra" beers and one of two dark or wheat on tap. Our bars are "uncompromisingly inferior" (to quote a character from "Andromeda Ascendant").
_______Dinner:at the Convention Center, we had
  • salad with some kind of white dressing
  • a chunk of well cooked roast beef
  • mashed potatoes
  • various veggies
  • cheese cake
  • 2 cups of "decaf" coffee
  • and water
Of all the meals we had at the Convention Center, this was the only good one we had. Even then, the portions were skimpy...

Thursday, September 23, 2010

23 September 2010

_____Breakfast: from the Milwaukee Hilton for breakfast:
  • omelet with
    • bacon,
    • sausage,
    • ham,
    • cheese,
    • green leafs
    • and onion
  • hash browns
  • bacon
  • coffee
________Lunch:  from a little diner, literally a hole in the wall, a
  • beef sandwich
    • with cheese,
    • lettuce
    • and tomato
  • chips
  • can of Diet Pepsi
_______Dinner:  A group of us went to an Italian Restaurant run by the Corleone family (I didn't make any jokes about the Corleones being the drug dealer villains in "Miami Vice"!). There, I had:
  • a MGD on tap and
  • a bottle of "Blue Cow" and then it was dinner with
  • excellent spaghetti, meat sauce and meatballs,
  • decent bread and
  • another bottle of "Blue Cow"
Fortunately, none of the deserts appealed to me so I was spared that sugar spiking...

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

22 September 2010

_____Breakfast: Kathie made:
  • scrambled eggs
  • bacon
  • and I buttered the Serra Lee coffee cake and
  • coffee
________Lunch:  We barely made our connecting flight in Kansas City Mo and "lunch" was a shared bag of potatoe chips and bottle of Diet Coke

Snack: two chocolate chip cookies on the flight to Minneapolis Wisconsin. They were fresh baked and very nice...
_______Dinner:  We ate at the Hilton (their "informal" bar/restaurant). I had
  • a ½ pound hamburger with
    • cheese and
    • lettuce
  • french fries
  • 2 MDG on tap (one before going to dinner)
  • and at the bar after dinner
    • a double Beefeaters gin-n-tonic and
    • a single Beefeaters gin-n-tonic (I didn't want an upset stomach later...)
We went out for a walk near the Minneapolis Hilton and I had a scoop of chocolate ice creamme at a mall. It was fairly good but probably not a good mix with the booze...

Post-Bed Time "Snack" (in a manner of speaking): I had a serious case of vomiting and Kathie the trots. I think the food was richer that what we're used to and I drank about a fortnight's worth of beer and almost a month's worth of gin-n-tonic in a couple of hours...

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

21 September 2010

Lunch: from Wendy's a quarter pounder with a baked potatoe and most of a medium Diet5 COke. I didn't finish th edrink because a fly dived into the drink and died.
 
Dinner: the left over steak and baked potatoe from last night and water

21 September 2010

Snack: piece of spice cake

Breakfast: Aunt Jemima Pancakes and Sausage and coffee

20 September 2010

Breakfast: cheerios and coffee

Lunch: a small can of stewed beef and gravy over a small baked potatoe (from last night)

Snack: the rest of the pork roast (a chunk about 3" by 2" by 2")

Dinner: I bought a box of small steaks and had
  • about 1 and a ¼ small steaks
  • most of a baked potatoe
  • a lot of boiled carrots
  • three small scoops of orange sherbet with chocolate shell
  • cold water
I worked out after lunch - treadmill for a half hour and weight lifting - and didn't feel so great later in the afternoon. It could even have been low blood sugar; something that verges on a miracle but even so, it could have happened. Still, feeling slightly ill, I didn't have much of an appetite at dinner.

Monday, September 20, 2010

20 September 2010

Breakfast: cherios and coffee

Lunch: a small baked potatoe with canned beef and gravy (and iced water...)

19 September 2010 (updated)

Breakfast: oatmeal, a small slice of sour dough bread with peanut butter and coffee

Lunch: left over spaghetti from the other night and a bag of Cheeze-Its, plus cold water

Snack: a hot dog bun with peanut butter and grape jelly (My dog was not alert and missed his chance to demand his tithe.)

Dinner: Using the 3 portion plate my diabetes adviser/coach taught me:
  • ½ of the plate for non-carb veggies,
  • ¼ of the plate for starches and
  • ¼ of the plate for protein,
I had
  • broccoli
  • baked potatoe
  • pork roast
I did not have a very small glass of milk or the fruit.  I should have had the fruit. Later, I had a single shot gin-n-tonic.




Sunday, September 19, 2010

19 September 2010

Breakfast: oatmeal, a small slice of sour dough bread with peanut butter and coffee

Lunch: left over spaghetti from the other night and a bag of Cheeze-Its, plus cold water

18 September 2010

Breakfast: wheaties and coffee

Snack: a chunk of hamburger I overcooked in the oven last night, with ketchup and mustard and coffee (No, I did not put coffee on the meat.)

Lunch: two hot dogs and cold water

Dinner: We went to the Boot Hill Casino (for the penny slots) and then for dinner of:
  • salad with Thousand Island Dressing
  • small cup of excellent potatoe/cheese soup
  • a largish (16 oz) piece of prime rib
  • baked potatoe
  • a small amount of "Indian" (curry) rice
  • cold water
Dessert: a couple of little scoops of orange sherbet with chocolate sauce

Saturday, September 18, 2010

17 September 2010

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee

Lunch: the left over steak and baked potatoe and roll from the other night and both iced water and cold coffee

Snack: some dark chocolate

Dinner: homemade spaghetti sauce over noodles and garlic bread (plus a bottle of MDG)

Thursday, September 16, 2010

15 September 2010

_____Breakfast: Wheaties, coffee and a single slice of sour dough bread with peanut butter
________Lunch: At Casey's cowtown, chicken sticks and french fries and iced watrer
_______Dinner: at Montana Mikes:
  • salad with Thousand Island dressing
  • a very large sirloin steak (I took half home)
  • baked potatoe with the full loading of butter and sour creamme

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

14 September 2010

Breakfast: wheaties and a slice of sour dough bread with peanut butter and coffee

Lunch: Pizza Hut. I went in expecting
  1. bad service
  2. bad selection
The service was fine and the food selection the best I've seen at either Pizza Huts in a very long time.  It was so good, I had trouble believing I was in a Pizza Hut.

Dinner: Healthy Choice Classic Meat Load (Meat Loaf with Rich Brown Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Sweet Corn Blend & Apple Cranberry Multigrain Crisp) and iced water

Monday, September 13, 2010

13 September 2010

Breakfast: cheerios and coffee

Lunch: From Arby's, a Gyro, "curly" fries and a medium "Diet Pepsi".

Snack: a small piece of dark chocolate

Dinner: a Marie Callender's Meat Lasagna (with Ricotta & Mozzarella Cheeses in Hearty Marinara Sauce) and iced water

Snack: a couple of chocolate chip cookies (I will so have to bring a good snack tomorrow night!)

Sunday, September 12, 2010

12 September 2010

Breakfast: Kathie's Big Breakfast of:
  • well cooked bacon
  • perhaps 2½ to 2¾ eggs scrambled
  • ¼ of a Serri Lee Coffee cake
  • coffee (of course)
Lunch: 1½ Rubens and cold water

Snack: a single small Oreo cookie (which I found in my junk bag whilst looking for my evening pills...)

Dinner: The left over roast beef and gravy (plus one pathetic little potatoe and about a ¼ of a carrot) and around ¾ a cup of boiled white rice and iced water. Then, too, three little Oreo cookies for "desert".







Saturday, September 11, 2010

11 September 2010

Breakfast:  We went to a breakfast place on West Wyatt Earp. I had
  • two "dollar sized pancakes" that were full sized (and more than I wanted...)
  • a 6 oz ribeye steak
  • hash brown
  • two eggs over medium
  • coffee
Yup, I am a "meat and potatoes" type of guy...

Lunch: rice with the left over chicken from the other day (and a couple of chunks of dressing thrown in ) and a cup of very bad coffee (instant I made...)

Dinner: Another case of leftovers. I had a bunch of left over roast beef, some potatoes and a big carrot plus iced water

Afterward, I had quite a sugar craving that I ignored...

10 September 2010

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee

Lunch: the left over half of dinner from last nigth: the (roughly) half double whopper, some fries and coffee

Lunch 2: some of the left over Chinese chicken from the other night and more coffee

Dinner: Since the Dodge City Lions Club came in second place in the Salvation Army bell ringing this past Thanksgiving and Christmas, we were invited to a celebration dinner. This was held at the Elks Club (just south of Beeson) but the Elks have folded. So, it was held at Fort Dodge. The meal consisted of:
  • a small bowl of salad with a zingy dressing
  • well cooked roast beef
  • mashed potatoes
  • brown gravy
  • an excellent roll
  • a chunk of a nice marble cake
This meal was, to quote Anthony Bourdain, "made with love".

It was excellent!

Two hours after dinner, I did my Friday "two-hours-after-eating-blood-check" and got a score of 206!  This is horrible but I am getting used to horrible results. As my wife said "you ate the cake..."  Yup, guilty as charged!

She offered me a gin-n-tonic, which was too strong but what I needed...

Friday, September 10, 2010

9 September 2010

Breakfast: oatmeal (fresh made!) and coffee

Lunch: at Casey's Cowtown: steak sandwich, fries and iced water.  The service was fine!

Dinner:  Kathie called Appleby's "Curbside Service" to order take away but got put on terminal hold. After 3 minutes on hold, she hung up and went to Burger King. (I'd have to say the Appleby's service was not fine!)

For dinner, she brought me a double whopper and fries. I was feeling ill and ate about half of it. The next morning, about 4:20, I checked my blood sugar and it was 159! Ah, I am so going to be going on Levemir after I bomb the A1C test in November  :-[ (November is when I get my annual VA checkup...)  I am going to power up the movie camera and have Kathie film my first self stabbing; how am I going to tell my relatives I've finally lost the battle against the needle?)

Wednesday, September 08, 2010

8 September 2010

Breakfast: wheaties and coffee

Snack: a piece of choclate cake left over from yesterday's office luncheon (I guess there is a reason I should not drop my breakfast off in the office refer at 5 am; there might be the remnants of someone's luncheon... :-)

Lunch: will be at Casey's Cowtown

Dinner: will

Tuesday, September 07, 2010

7 September 2010

_____Breakfast: From Burger King, a big omelet sandwich, tater tots, coffee
________Lunch: We went to the new Italian Restaurant on Front Street, in the old camera store. I had
  • two slices of bread and butter
  • spaghetti with a spicy tomato sauce with meat
  • two glasses of "Diet Coke"

There was a  problem in that the kitchen sent out the wrong food so we had to send the plates back for the real food. We liked the waitress; she was at "Vernon's Place" and then the "Hitching Post" and is now here. I handed the tip to her and said "this tip is for you and not the cooks". She nodded and stashed the tiip.
_____ Dinner: Homemade boiled roast beef with potatoes and carrots and water.

I had browned beef bones yesterday and took a shot at making brown gravy. It was a total flop...

6 September 2010

_____Breakfast: 
________Lunch: KFC for chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy and desert and 2 glasses of Diet Pepsi
_______Dinner: a nice little TV dinner
Pre-Bed Snack: gin-n-tonic

Sunday, September 05, 2010

5 September 2010

Breakfast:  We went to Mike Casey's "Casey's Cowtown" for breakfast. I had
  • 2 eggs over medium
  • a thin ham "steak"
  • hash browns
  • 2 slices of whole wheat toast
  • coffee
  • iced water
The food was fine, the service adequate.

Lunch: Kathie made baked chicken with dressing and aspargius; I had cold water and later some coffee.

Snack: I had an irrestible craving for something decadent and got myself a medium choclate Frosty from Wendys. It was good...

Dinner: I had a Healthy Choice Classic Meat Load (Meat loaf with Rich Brown Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Sweet Corn Blend & Apple Cranberry Multigrain Crisp) and a couple of little Oreo cookies. I found these cookies going thru my junk bag

Then, I had a bag of popcorn.

Feeling decadent, I had an ice creamme sandwich.



A note on service: I have not been thrilled with the restaurant service lately.

 You should not have to flag down a waitress to get a drink refill.

You should not be handed your bill before you are offered the chance to order desert. In fact, if a restaurant offers desert, you should be asked if you want any. Now, speaking as a diabetic, I should not have desert and I suppose the "wait staff" is doing me a favour. However, since they don't know of my health concerns, I think the "wait staff" apparently are simply not interested in doing further business with me/us after we've finished the meal.  Thus, they lose a sale and get a smaller tip.

The service in Dodge City has simply been poor; sadly, this is no change from what it has been for perhaps 10 - 14 years...


Saturday, September 04, 2010

4 September 2010

Breakfast: a double portion of creamme of wheat (what I normally think of as being one serving!), two slices of sour dough toast and coffee

Lunch: We went to the Boot Hill Casino for lunch. There, I had:
  • a meat and veggie soup. The meat might have been beef but it and the soup tasted like it should have been a shoulder of ham soup
  • a 14 oz charcoal cooked rib eye (good but I'm not used to charcoal cooked steak)
  • a baked potatoe
  • two little rolls
  • split a "Suicide by Choalate" cake with Kathie
  • two glasses of "Diet Pepsi"
We got good service and the waitress made a fine effort to remember what I like to drink with lunch ("Diet Pepsi, no ice"). She didn't remember it all but that is fine; she made the effort!

Post-lunch, I had some more coffee (actually, about a ½ cup) and not quite that much before going to work in the late afternoon.

Dinner: After the bigness of my lunch, I had a Healthy Choice meal for dinner: Beef Pot Roast (Roasted Beef with Cabernet Gravy, Carrots, Red Potatoes & Apple Cranberry Mutigrain Crisp) and iced water

Friday, September 03, 2010

3 September 2010

Breakfast: about 1 cup (the last of) my homemade beef stew from this past weekend, a peanut butter and grape jelly sandwich and coffee

Lunch: We went to the "North" Pizza Hut. I went inside expected
  1. the buffet line to be anemic
  2. service to be poor
  3. have to go to the counter to get a refill of my soft drink.
Given these exceptions, I was "disappointed" by:

"Disappointment #1": There actually had a fine selection of items and enough stuff to make a decent salad.

"Disappointment #2": There was only one waitress working the place so I really didn't expect much service. When I went to get some desert, the waitress hustled over with a pitcher of "Diet Pepsi" and filled my glass as I put some apple pie pizza on my plate.

I shouldn't refer to these two good items as "Disappointments" but then my sense of humour sometimes isn't the best... ;-)

The food selection was actually quite good and the service quite adequate and better than we've gotten the last several times we've gone to Pizza Hut.

For lunch, I had:
  • salad with "bacon", cheddar cheese and Thousand Island dressing
  • piece of pepperoni pizza
  • piece of hamburger pizza
  • piece of apple pie pizza
  • some noddle stuff with red sauce
  • a piece of sticky pastry
  • the aforementioned glasses (2) of "Diet Pepsi"
Dinner: A Healthy Choice Classic Meat Loaf (Meat Loaf with Rich Brown Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Sweet Corn Blend & Apple Cranberry Multigrain Crisp) and iced water



Thursday, September 02, 2010

2 September 2010

Breakfast: some corn beef hash, two fried/scrambled eggs and coffee

Lunch: at the new Mexican place in what used to be Mike Casey's 2nd place: an "open face" taco, two items wrapped in dough, great re-fried beans and rice. I also had two "Diet Cokes" without ice; I would have ordered a desert but the waitress dropped our bill off without asking "would you folks like desert"? I took this as a strong hint: don't order desert!  So, I did not order desert.

There were only two waitress in the place and service was quite slow. When I finally got "our" waitress' attention and asked for a refill, she said :"oh, you want a refill"? "No, I just like waving my glass in the air!" Actually, I said "yes".

Well, yet another place in Dodge City with decent food and not so good service. This seems to be a pattern...

Snack: I had some orange sherbet and coffee; tomorrow, I will not drink coffee after 1 pm. I suspect that has been upsetting my stomach in the late afternoon lately.

Dinner: I had the rest of the left over stew and iced water. Afterward, I felt sick to my stomach and am wondering why I seem to have stomach problems a lot lately...

Wednesday, September 01, 2010

1 September 2010

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee

Lunch: a steak sandwich, french fries and iced water at Casey's Cowtown
I don't know what set it off but I was reasonably sick to the stomach after lunch. Now, at 9:23 pm, I'm fairly over whatever it was...

Dinner: left over beef stew (from day before yesterday) and iced water

31 August 2010

Breakfast: I put the required amount of water for a double serving of grits into a small sauce pan, brought the water to a boil, dropped in two eggs and waited till the eggs were fairly well cooked (cooked a poached eggs) and then added the grits. I put some spread (not butter) and a pinch of red peppers in with the raw grits and cooked this mess as if it were grits. This and coffee made for a fine, if seldom, meal.

Lunch: two bierocks and a bag of cheezets and water.

Dinner: home made beef stew, some garlic bread and a MGD beer.

Sunday, August 29, 2010

my recipe collection

A bad day of pork chop cooking or "I filled the house with smoke..."

Aunt Noreme's sour creamme coffee cake recipie

Basic white sauce

cornbread recipie

A great choclate pudding recipe

Choclate liquor

Dad's marinade recipe

Diabetic Forecast tomator soup recipie

Diabetic's choclate pudding

My Mother's all meat" meal. Something she did not let my brothers and I try and which she claimed to not remember decades later. (I believed her.)

Tuna noodle casserol

Choclate Liquor Recipe

1½ cup Sugar
¾ cup Water
3 cups Vodka
5 tablespoons Unsweetened cocoa
1 each Vanilla bean, split

Combine sugar and water in small saucepan; cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until mixture boils. Reduce heat to low; simmer, stirring occasionally, until sugar has completely dissolved. Remove from heat; cool to room temperature. Measure 1 cup of the mixture; combine with vodka, cocoa and vanilla bean in clean 2-quart glass container. Cover tightly; keep in cool dark place for 14 days, shaking thoroughly every 2 days. Strain liqueur through dampened coffee filter paper into clean glass container. (Change filter paper in mid-process or, if necessary, let drip overnight as cocoa residue is very thick.) Repeat straining process if residue remains. Remove vanilla bean. Cover tightly; let liqueur age in cool, dark place for at least 1 month. About 1 quart. 
From: Hershey's Chocolate Treasury Submitted By PAT STOCKETT On 04-07-95

19 August 2010

_____Breakfast:
  • scrambled eggs (2)
  • grits
  • slice of sour dough toast with peanut butter and grape jelly
  • coffee

________Lunch: the very rest of yesterday's lunch
_______Dinner: from Applebys:
  • 12 oz rib eye steak
  • baked potatoe
  • we split a desert of ice creamme and whipped creamme on a very large chocolate chip cookie
Pre-Bed Snack:

My Dad's birthday or 28 August 2010

_____Breakfast: We went to the Boot Hill Casino for
  • scrambled eggs
  • SOS on hash browns
  • bisqujit with grape jelly
  • 3 big strawberries
  • a couple of chunks of mellon
  • coffee

I think we've been here too often as I've gotten a bit tired of the food...

________Lunch: From Walmart
  • "Chinese" orange chicken
  • Chicken chunks
  • potatoe wedges

_______Dinner:  some left overs from lunch
 
Pre-Bed Snack: a double gin-n-tonic and a single gin-n-tonicv

Saturday, August 28, 2010

NOT FOR MY WIFE'S EYES or Honey, I burned the pork choips

http://dying-by-fork.blogspot.com/2008/11/14-november-2008.html

NOT FOR MY WIFE'S EYES

    There was a bit of a problem with boiling the pork chops [on 14 November 2008].

    I had worked the 4 am to noon shift and was very tired. So, after I put the pork chops on hot, to bring the water to a boil for a few minutes, I sat down by the computer and zoned out. I completely forgot the boiling water, which I had planned on reducing to a simmer after a few minutes.

    I didn't remember them until the house was filled with dense smoke and the smoke detector went off. I checked the pork chops and the bottoms were burnt black, while the top was seriously overcooked.

    The important thing is the house was filled with smoke and it was November. The good think is that it was a nice day and when I opened the window in the main bedroom; both my cats went up onto it. I then turned the fans on in both bathrooms and over the stove. I also opened both the front and back doors and started waiting for the house to air out.

    It took almost three hours before the house stopped smelling like smoke. I waited a bit longer and then shut the windows, the doors and turned the fans off.

    When Kathie got home, she mentioned how smoky the house was. I didn't have the nerve to tell her what happened [and that the house had been a lot worst earlier].

Text in black is from my initial reporting of the event and text in blue is from 28 August 2010.

Friday, August 27, 2010

27 August 2010

My pre-breakfast score was 202!

Breakfast:
cheerios and coffee

Lunch: a bowl of chicken noodle soup (from Quinox) and small bag of potatoe chips and a medium "Diet Pepsi"

I was feeling ill at noon so I didn't go beyond the soup; now, I'm feeling very hungry (it is 7:16 pm) and looking forward to my dinner...

Dinner: a homemade "treat" of:
  • boiled pork chops
  • boiled potatoes
  • sour kraut
and iced water

I scored 149

Snack: I've been eying the "Dove SILKY SMOOTH DARK CHOCOLATE" bar in the work freezer for some time. Since no one has eaten it, I finally convinced myself that it was one I put there a year or so ago.

Thursday, August 26, 2010

26 August 2010

Breakfast: cherrieos and coffee

Lunch: various at PIzza Hut: a couple of pieces of pizza, desert pizza, cottage cheese and salad and the "Diet Pepsi, no ice" (I ordered) and the "Diet Pepsi, lots of ice" (which I got when I finally waved down the waitress for a refill). We had the misfortune to get the side of the PH that apparently was not assigned a waitress...

Dinner: Healthy Choice Beef pot Roast (roasted beef with Cabernet Gravy, Carrots, Red Potatoes & Apple Cranberry Multigrain Crisp) and iced water

Desert: the choclate chip cookie left over from last night...

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

25 August 2010

Breakfast: the left over bacon from yesterday between two slices of sour dough toast (didn't taste like the pan...) and a bowl of cheerios. The bacon must have been fine since my dog ate his "tithe" without complaint; that is, I doubt he even chewed it!

I felt reasonably horrible after the milk with breakfast and then walking on the treadmill and lifting weights. There must be something going around.

Lunch: at Casey's Cowtown, a little steak sandwich and french fries plus one glass of iced water.

Desert: I had a small container of chocolate ice creamme (and my dog got his "tithe" as well... ;-)  )

Dinner:  Kroger "healthy meals made simple" lemon herb chicken with brown rice (boneless chicken breast with rib meat in a light lemon herb sauce) with iced water

This tasted good but definitely not good enough to have again. The lemon was too strong and it actually tasted too sweet; what a surprise given that "sugar" is listed as the 4th ingredient.

Snack: a choclate chip cookie; I left the other for tomorrow night...

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

24 August 2010

Breakfast: using my cast iron fry pan, I
  • fried bacon
  • cooked two eggs in the fat
  • toasted two slices of sour dough bread
  • made bad instant coffee
My stomach was upset afterward which makes me wonder if there is something with the fry pan that upsets my stomach (which never happens if I let the good cooked on it set in the refer) or if it simply was the amount of grease on the bacon...

Lunch: We went to Sonic and I ordered:
  • double hamburger with no cheese
  • french fries
  • medium "Diet Pepsi" with no ice
They confirmed that I did not want cheese.  Not only did my burger come with cheese slathering the meat, both patties  looked like they had been dipped in cheese sauce. Mine appeared to have more cheese than my wife's burger and she asked for cheese...

Pre-dinner blues: I have a slight headache, slight nausea and pangs of hunger and this matches what Wikipedia had for hyperglycemia.  What a surprise!  =-O

Dinner: A TV dinner, Maríe Callender's Country Fried Beef Steak, with mashed potatoes, gravy and glazed carrots and iced water



Monday, August 23, 2010

23 August 2010

 Breakfast: two scrambled eggs and coffee

Lunch: at the "Chinese", where I had some beef dishes, chicken dishes, chocolate pudding and  Vanilla pudding and "Diet Pepsi"

I think I've gotten terminally tired of the seasoning at "King's  Buffet" and will have to give it a rest for several months. Right now, I would rather go to "Pizza Hut" (and this is not a good thing!).

Snack: about ⅓ to ½ cup of fresh coffee (finished by 5:05 pm and thus, should not screw up my sleep tonight)

Dinner:  Lean Cuisine Pepperoni Pizza and iced water

Sunday, August 22, 2010

This entry really started yesterday:
I spent the rest of the night waking up feeling stuffed. I refused to stick my finger down my throat (although I would have felt better) and took a shot of Maalox and later a Tums. The food was excellent but my feeling bad was simply due my stomach. I can't seem to handle fat or handle getting too stuffed.

At 6:03 am, I woke up feelikng fine but had to pee. After that, I felt very hungry but I decided "screw it", I'm not giving into my stomach after what it did to me all night...


_____Breakfast: at the hotel in Canyon, Texas, I had
  • SOS on biscuit
  • biscuit with peanut butter and grape jelly
  • scrambled eggs
  • coffee

________Lunch: at the Blue Hereford in Ford Kansas
  • salad
  • a couple of hamburgers in gravy
  • mashed potatoes with brown gravy
  • deep fat fried chicken breast (this will give my anti-cholesterol meds a good workout!)
  • chocolate pudding
  • whitish pudding
  • coffee
  • iced water

_______Dinner: 
Pre-Bed Snack:

21 August 2010

_____Breakfast:at the hotel in Canyon, Texas:
  • two little cheese egg microwave omelets
  • two little disks of sausage
  • a biscuit with butter
  • coffee

________Lunch: at the Buffalo in Can yon
  • a medium well done hamburger (actually, it was closer to well done)
  • home made french fires
  • Diet Coke
                Snack: part of a dark chocolate truffle and a Starbuck's mocha lotta______
              Dinner: from Olive Garden, in Amarillo,
  • salad with their usual oil-vinegar
  • spaghetti with meat sauce and meatballs
  • 2 or 3 bread sticks
  • iced water
 Pre-Bed Snack:three gin-n-tonic

I spent the rest of the night waking up feeling stuffed. I refused to stick my finger down my throat (althought I would have felt better) and took a shot of Malox and later a Tums. The food was excellent but my feeling bad was simply due my stomach. I can't seem to handle fat or handle getting too stuffed.

At 6:03 am, I woke up feelikng fine but had to pee. After that, I felt very hungry but I decided "screw it", I'm not giving into my stomach after what it did to me all night...

20 August 2010

_____Breakfast: Aunt Jemima pancakes and sausage and coffee plus the left over steak and baked potatoe from last night
________Lunch: McDonald's ¼ pounder, fries and medium Diet Coke
_______Dinner: at the Canyon Texas show, we had dinner from the Big Texan
  • salad
  • steak and a second steak
  • two servings of scalloped potatoes
  • excellent Peach cobbler
  • water and very low sugar lemonade

Thursday, August 19, 2010

19 August 2010

_____Breakfast:  Wheaties and coffee
                 Snack:  bag of popcorn
________Lunch: 3 Dillions fried chicken legs, some potatoe wedges and a bottle of Diet Pepsi
_______ Dinner: we went to "Ham's", a restaurant up on the bypass"
  •  salad wioth Thousand Island Dressing
  • excellent steak - very nicely seasoned - and I complemented the Chef when he came out to check the house. He was very appreciative of getting honest praise.
  • baked potatoe with sour creamme and butter
  • since Kathie drove home, I had a couple of bottles of Bud; this was the only beer that wasn't too strong and wasn't too weak for me (like that wimp beer, Michelob Ultra. Michelob Lager is a fine beer, Ultra sucks!.
Pre-Bed Snack:  a couple of pieces of dark chocolate

18 August 2010

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee

Lunch: at Casey's Cowtown: smothered burrito with extra sour creamme and the lettuce and tomato eaten separately

Dinner: a Lean Cuisine meatloaf and mashed potatoes and water

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

17 August 2010

Breakfast: the last piece of my birthday cake with ice creamme left over from the office luncheon on the 3rd

Breakfast (real!): cheerios with two bananas and coffee

Snack: potatoe chips (what else?) coffee...

Lunch: peanut butter and jelly sandwich and cold water

Dinner: Kathie made this noodle, scrimp and cheesy white sauce, broccoli flowers, garlic bread and orange sherbet with chocolate shell

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

17 August 2010

Breakfast: the last piece of my birthday cake with ice creamme left over from the office luncheon on the 3rd

Breakfast (real!): cheerios with two bananas and coffee

Snack: potatoe chips (what else?) coffee...

16 August 2010

Pre-Breakfast Snack: some of my left over birthday cake, which I brought to work.

Breakfast: Jimmy Dean Breakfast Bowls: Sausage (Eggs, Potatoes, Sausage & Cheddar Cheese), a banana and coffee

Lunch: Burger King double hamburger, fries and a medium "Diet Pepsi"

Dinner: Some "Chinese" items on rice and later, sherbet with chocolate shell

Monday, August 16, 2010

16 August 2010

Pre-Breakfast Snack: some of my left over birthday cake, which I brought to work.

Breakfast: Jimmy Dean Breakfast Bowls: Sausage (Eggs, Potatoes, Sausage & Cheddar Cheese), a banana and coffee

15 August 2010

Breakfast: cherrioes and coffee

Lunch: at the Boot Hill Casino:
  • salad with Thousand Island Dressing
  • ½ chicken, deep fat fried
  • mashed potatoes and white gravy
  • roll and butter
  • 2 glasses of "Diet Pepsi, no ice"
Dinner: We went for a breakfast:
  • well cooked bacon
  • scrambled eggs
  • Serri Lee coffee cake
  • cold water
Snack: a piece of my birthday cake

Saturday, August 14, 2010

My 59th Birthday

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appetizer: a big spoonful of peanut butter...

Breakfast:
grits mixed with canned chicken and some soy sauce

Lunch: at Montana Mike's:
  • salad with Thousand Island dressing
  • 8 oz filet
  • baked potatoe with butter and sour creamme
  • we had split an order of "potatoe boats" as an appetizer - these were partial baked potatoes with cheese and bacon
  • two glasses of "Diet Pepsi"
Dinner: We went to Boot Hill Museum (as opposed to Boot Hill Casino) for a fund raiser for Brett Harris and his family. We had
  • sloppy joes
  • chips
  • low sugar apple pie
  • water

Friday, August 13, 2010

Grandma Lil's 114Birthday

Breakfast: From Burger King
  • SOS on biscuit
  • potatoe disks
  • coffee
Lunch: at the new "Mexican" place where "Delmonicos" used to be, I had a variety of Mexican dishes and two glasses of "Diet Coke". It was fine.
   
Dinner: Lean Crusine Three Meat PIzza: pepperoni, italian sausage and seasoned ground beef with reduced fat mozzarellas cheese and cold water.

This would have been my Grandma Lil's 114th birthday.She was born Lillian Lotte Pepperall, daughter of James Pepperall and Bessie Burge on 13 August 1896 in England. She died on 17 April 1971.  Her cause of death was "coronary thrombosis" and "hypertension" This "hypertension" is something that afflicts our bloodline. I am on two blood pressure medications and a very strong anti-cholesterol medication. I imagine Grandma Lil might have lived longer had she modern medications. However, she handled the dearth of Pop (her husband, my paternal grandfather) very badly and I can't she the Lady as having wanted to live much longer...

After writhing this, I had a strange mental image: I remembered the family getting together in my paternal grandparent's living room, with Grandma Lil sitting by the wall on the other side of the stairs. She said "no, that's not true..."

It was a strange and mystic moment, especially since I'm not much for "speaking with the dead".

12 August 2010

_____Breakfast:  peanut butter and grape jelly sandwich and coffee
________Lunch: at the Co9mmunity College,
  • salad
  • jumbolia
  • sloppy job
  • rice
  • brownie
  • "Diet Pepsi"
_______Dinner: at the Community College, dinner with the Weather Man convention
  • sdalad
  • overcooked (the way I like it) steak
  • baked potatoe with butter and sour creamme
  • brownie with whipped creamme
We had a convention and I had:
  • donuts
  • slices of sausage
  • little cubes of cheddar cheese
  • cans of Diet Pepsi

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Re: 10 August 2010

Breakfast: Jimmy Dean Breakfast Bowls Sausage (Eggs, Potatoes, Sausage & Cheddar Cheese) and coffee

Lunch: an office luncheon featuring
  • "turtles" or cylinders of hamburger with hot dog "legs", wrapped in bacon and baked
  • salad
  • ice creamme
  • some Root Beer
half of this was bad for me...

Dinner: an Arby's "French Dip" sandwich with chips and bottle of cold water

Snack: leftover boiled chicken with tomatoe sauce and noodles (from the other night)

There was yet another Vir Coto moment (i.e. dinner came back up) about an hour after I went to bed...

This marks 7 Days of Pizza Hut free living!

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

10 August 2010

Breakfast: Jimmy Dean Breakfast Bowls Sausage (Eggs, Potatoes, Sausage & Cheddar Cheese) and coffee

Lunch: an office luncheon

cider vinegar

I'm probably grasping at straws but I'll give this a shot. I'll have to
get recipies that use "cider vinegar" though.


"Janet

If you have Type 2 diabetes, cider vinegar is a great glucose stablizer.
Cider vinegar, canola oil and some garlic and onion powder will make
your green salad a pleasure to eat!"

http://eatocracy.cnn.com/2010/08/09/55-food-writer-kendra-bailey-morris/?hpt=C2

Sunday, August 08, 2010

8 August 2010

Breakfast:  Jimmy Dean Breakfast Entrées Scrambled Eggs with Bacon and cheese, Diced Apples & Seasoned Hash Browns and iced water
 
Lunch: egg salad sandwich and coffee

7 August 2010

Breakfast:  wheaties and coffee

Snack: popcorn (My Father was big into popcorn but I don't know if it helped control his blood sugar. Popcorn is "medium" on the Glycemic Index and this should have helped... )

Lunch: the rest of the left over beef stew and a bag of cheeze crackers and water

Dinner: chicken stripes, rice and broccoli and cold water

Saturday, August 07, 2010

6 August 2010

Breakfast:  oatmeal and coffee

Snack: popcorn and coffee

Lunch: at Mary's, on East Trail Street
  • double hamburger - two patties of well done charcoal cooked meat,
  • home made fries - you could tell these were once potatoes and not the product of an extruder!
  • a bottle of Diet Pepsi
The place was crowded and there were not enough waitresses. Still, our orders were taken fairly quickly, the drinks brought to out table before the food order was taken and the food obviously brought to us as soon as it was up. All in all, a good meal (albeit not fancy) with reasonably good service.

I recommend this place.

Snack:  a vanilla ice cramme cone

Dinner: I had a homemade meal:
  • a can of tuna fish baked in the oven
  • baked potatoes
  • boiled broccoli
  • cold water to drink
I had hoped my blood sugar would not be too high and it was much higher than I feared it would be (265). I have problems with this.
  • perhaps the meter is off and I should use a glucose test solution to check the meter?
  • perhaps the ice creamme was kicking me in the ass?
  • perhaps the baked potatoe did an anomalous good job and jacking my blood sugar?
Ah, I'm so shafted! The bad karma from bad mouthing my youngest brother about his inability to control his blood sugar is rebounding upon me! I guess I'll be using insulin come late November, if I can bring myself to wait that long!

Friday, August 06, 2010

5 August 2010

Breakfast:  from Burger King, a giant omlette sandwich, ½ an order of potatoe things and coffee

Lunch: 3 tacos at Taco Bell and a "Diet Pepsi"

Dinner: homemade beef stew (stewed beef, potatoes and rice)

This was, unfortunately, a "Vir Coto" event: i.e. "It tasted so good going down, not so good coming back up".

Thursday, August 05, 2010

4 August 2010

Breakfast: Wheaties and coffee

Lunch: from Casey's Cowtown:
  • steak sandwich
  • fries
  • iced water

The food was good and the service was very good! Mike Casey has gotten into the habit of giving the Lions a great waitress and I don't begrudge her nice tips!

Dinner: We went to the 2010 Dodge City Rodeo and had
  • hamburger
  • chips
  • a small container of vanilla ice creamme and
  • a can of Diet Pepsi

I asked for a well cooked hamburger and it was a bit cold. About an hour after going to bed, everything I'd had to eat or drink came back up. Probably it was a combination of too much exertion, heat and sun.

We had worked as ushers at the rodeo and that was walking around for about 1½ hours, in the sun and approximately 90° heat.

Snack: After ushering, we watched the rodeo. I bought one of those huge donuts ("Elephant Ears"?), covered with powdered sugar and split this with Kathie. I traded about half of this was a sip of her beer.
 

Pre-Bed Snack: a largish glass of tonic water with maybe an oz of Vodka

The Rat

Years ago, my wife read an article about a woman who found a deep fat fried rat in her box of Kentucky Fried Chicken.  She sued and KFC paid her a lot of money. Since then, we have callled KFC "The Rat".

Tuesday, August 03, 2010

3 August 2010

Breakfast: cheerios and coffee

Lunch: at the North Pizza Hut:
  • a slice of peperoni pizza
  • two chunks of their cinnamon roll desert
  • three little cookies (there was no chocolate pudding tapioca to go with it...)
  • two shots of salad (there was no cottage cheese for that matter) and all served with
  • a large dose of poor service!

Bad poor service you say?
We were seated quickly enough in a booth but the seat had water sitting on it. I had to ask our waitress to dry it off; she was embarrassed by this.

She did a quick job of getting my glass of "Diet Pepsi, no ice" (although it seemed a rather long wait to me!)

I was almost done with the glass when I realized our waitress had not come around to see if I wanted more Diet Pepsi. I tried flagging her and another waitress down but they did that "blind waitress" act. It worked; I ended up walking up to the checkout table to ask for a refill. The woman behind the counter kept her eyes down and finished some paperwork. When it was obvious that I wasn't going away, she glanced at me and said "yes". I said "I'd like a refill of Diet Pepsi, please." She refilled my glass and looking down said "here you are" and acted like she had done me a real favor.

There was no apology for me having to go get my free refill; just annoyance on her part.

After I sat down and finished off my "feast" :-D , our waitress came around and offered to refill my "Doctor Pepper". I give her partial credit for making the effort to do glass refill after I'd gotten my own refill. She loses this partial credit by not only bringing the wrong drink around but by bringing Dr. Pepper! (Which I despise!)

I didn't say anything to my wife; she saw it all. Hopefully, this will be the last time we go to this "restaurant" for a long time to come. (Come to think of it, that is basically what she said after we ate at "The Rat" yesterday.

Snack: a 3.8oz container of chocolate ice creamme with chocolate shell on it; my dog enjoyed his share. Probably should not have had it but could not resist...

Dinner: I had a Healthy Choice Cafe Steamers Cajun Style Chicken & Scrimp (Chicken Tenderloin & Shrimp with Rice and Vegetables in Spicy Cajun-Style Sauce) and iced water (This at least was a healthy choice of a meal.)

Monday, August 02, 2010

2 August 2010

Breakfast: two soft boiled eggs on toast and coffee

Lunch: At KFC,
  • two extra crispy chicken legs
  • one of their new broiled chicken breasts
  • mashed potatoes with brown gravy and some cottage cheese added
  • corn
  • apple crisp desert
  • a bit over a medium glass of "Diet Pepsi"
Dinner:  Healthy Choice Beef Pot Roast (Roasted Beef with Cabernet Gravy, Carrots, Red Potatoes & Apple Cranberry Multigrain Crisp) and iced water

Snack: popcorn and iced water

Sunday, August 01, 2010

1 August 2010

Breakfast: a small bowl of left over tuna noodle casserole and coffee. I felt fine after eating and did not have the awful side effects I had from yesterday's breakfast! Must have been the pancake syrup mixed with tart orange juice?

Lunch: We went to the Italian Restaurant at the Garden City Airport. (We had gone to Sam's and this was our reward for timing the shopping trip correctly.) I had excellent home made rolls (3 of them), spaghetti with meat sauce and meatballs and 2 glasses of Diet Pepsi. It was all very good.

Snack: several slivers of beef jerky and some dark chocolate

Dinner: A Lean Cuisine Cheddar Potatoes with Broccoli (potatoes with broccoli and cheddar cheese sauce) and iced water

Snack:  a couple of chocolate chip cookies (I was very hungry.)






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